Just for the record, both I and a co-worker were there as well. I mostly lurk on the list as there is little I can contribute ... but I'm a Boston.PM'er, too!
I enjoyed the great deal of humor, including the inside jokes. And, if there were 120..150 people present, then that's also the approximate card count for his slide deck. -- Stephen A. Jarjoura http://runester.com On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Uri Guttman <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> "TM" == Tom Metro <[email protected]> writes: > > TM> I attended the MIT presentation. I didn't notice many Boston.pm-ers > TM> there, aside from Uri, of course, who made a call for MIT faculty and > TM> staff to talk to him about YAPC (I don't think he got any takers, > TM> unfortunately; maybe we should have distributed fliers to the crowd or > TM> something?) I think long time Boston.pm lurker Aaron Sherman > TM> introduced himself to Uri after the talk. > > i recognized at least 10-15 boston.pm'ers. a few included tom, bill > ricker, steve scaffidi, bob rogers, duane, frederico, andrew langmead > (lurking these days but he used to host us at boston.com), and others. > > TM> I'd estimate the hall was about 3/4 full, with 120 ~ 150 people. The > TM> talk with QA ran almost 2 hours, with only a few people leaving before > TM> the first hour was up. Quite a few left by 6 PM. > > i would say more like 100 but i didn't try to make a better counting. > > TM> Not surprisingly it sounds like the talk followed the same format as > TM> the Harvard talk, with the first half being some historical background > TM> leading to Perl done with lots of humor, and the second half talking > TM> about Perl 6 specifics. > > i liked the first part and wished he had some way to shorten the second > part. it felt rushed and i also thought the biggest thing in perl6 the > grammar/rules stuff was given short shrift. much of the rest was fancy > ops and OO stuff but evolving regexes into the inheritable rules system > is a major breakthrough. most all of the other new stuff in perl6 are > stolen or influenced by other langs. but the rules engine is new ground > and one of the more accessible things since everyone knows some regex > stuff. > > TM> Perhaps the most significant point made in the latter half was the > TM> degree to which they've designed Perl 6 to be extensible, such that > TM> the extensions are "first class" members of the lexicon and not hacked > TM> on with syntax that is inconsistent with the built-in functions. > > good point. > > uri > > -- > Uri Guttman ------ [email protected] -------- http://www.sysarch.com-- > ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support > ------ > --------- Free Perl Training --- http://perlhunter.com/college.html--------- > --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com--------- > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
